Ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections that are scheduled to be held in December 2022, an Ahmedabad court on Friday, 16 September, sentenced Gujarat Independent MLA Jignesh Mevani and 18 others to six months in jail in connection with a case about a protest at Gujarat University in 2016, Live Law reported.
The case against Mevani and his associates was registered at the Gujarat University police station in 2016, for staging a road blockade and demanding that a building of the law department of Gujarat University be renamed after BR Ambedkar.